Commentary

• Meaning in History by Karl Löwith

  - Lowith, Karl. Meaning in History: The Theological Implications of the Philosophy of History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1949.  
  From the Publisher: Modern man sees with one eye of faith and one eye of reason. Consequently, his view of history is confused. For centuries, the history of the Western world has been viewed from the Christian or classical standpoint—from a deep faith in… More

• “Historical Theory and the Structure of Moral Argument in Marx”

  - Gilbert, Alan. “Historical Theory and the Structure of Moral Argument in Marx.” Political Theory, Vol. 9 (1981), pp. 173–205.
  From the Publisher: “Marx’s critique of prevailing moralities can, however, be mistakenly interpreted as denying any separable sphere of moral argument and re- flection. In this view, which I will call the historicist critique of morality, Marx… More

• “An Ambiguity in Marx’s and Engels’s Account of Justice and Equality”

  - Gilbert, Alan. “An Ambiguity in Marx’s and Engels’s Account of Justice and Equality.” The American Political Science Review, Vol. 76 (1982), pp. 328–346.
  Abstract: “Given the widespread moral conventionalism or historicism in contemporary social science and ethics, many have viewed Marx as arguing either that conceptions of justice simply shift historically and lack objectivity (relativism) or that… More

• Marx and the Ancients : Classical Ethics, Social Justice, and Nineteenth-century Political Economy

  - McCarthy, George E. Marx and the Ancients : Classical Ethics, Social Justice, and Nineteenth-century Political Economy. Savage, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1990.
  From the Publisher: “Marx and the Ancients is the first book-length treatment to detail the relationship between classical Greek philosophy and Karl Marx’s critique of political economy. From his dissertation on the physics and astronomy of… More

• Ethics and the Materialist Conception of History

  - Kautsky, Karl. Ethics and the Materialist Conception of History. Amsterdam: Fredonia Books., 2002.
  From the Publisher: “This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character… More